By Sanya Jain
Publication Date: 2026-02-22 02:34:00
Sarvam AI’s stellar showing at the recently-concluded India AI Impact Summit in Delhi has had at least one unlikely benefit for an employee — Harveen Singh Chadha said that his parents, initially unhappy that he quit Microsoft to join the startup, have now had a change of heart.
What is Sarvam AI?
Sarvam AI is an Indian artificial intelligence company based in Bengaluru that was founded in 2023. The startup builds large language models (LLMs) and multimodal AI systems.
Leveraging the spotlight at the recent AI summit, Sarvam unveiled its own AI model, designed from the ground up for Indian users. The voice-first service supports nearly two dozen Indian languages — a feature the company sees as a key advantage in a country of 1.45 billion people, where most users cannot read, write, or comfortably type in English. (Also read: What is Sarvam, India’s AI model praised by Google CEO Pichai and has an edge against…